215-217 High Street, Kirkcaldy

215-217 High Street in Kirkcaldy is an irregular terrace building dating from 1859 for Nos 215 and 217, with Nos 211 and 213 added in the later 19th century. The terrace has been altered and linked at ground level. Nos 215 and 217 feature elaborate High Renaissance and Jacobean arcading, along with floral and scroll details, and are constructed from polished ashlar. The common ground floor has a cornice.

Nos 211 and 213 are three stories tall with an attic and consist of a two-bay tenement that includes a shop at ground level. They have bracketed, lugged, and architraved windows, with segmentally pedimented window heads in the mansard and a blind balustrade. The windows are set in stone mullions.

On the south elevation facing High Street, there is a modern shop front at ground level next to Nos 215 and 217. The first and second floors each have two bipartite windows, and there are two additional windows with bracketed and pedimented window heads flanking a balustrade with similarly pedimented outer piers.

Nos 215 and 217 are three stories high and have three bays. The second floor features a cill course with a nailhead eaves cornice and a balustrade. The round-headed windows are adorned with rusticated voussoirs, an impost band on the second floor, hoodmoulds, and keystones, all set in stone mullions with strapwork carving.

The south elevation has a modern shop front at ground level. The first floor showcases three decorative astragalled, arcaded round-headed windows with decorative jambs and voussoirs. Below the second floor cill course, there is carved detail in the spandrels, with initials and the date flanking six arcaded round-headed windows that feature chamfered and pilastered jambs, decorative arches, and keystones. Above, there is a pierced balustrade with decorative dies.

The building has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, with fixed glazing on the second floor and ground level. It is topped with grey slates and has cavetto coped end stacks with a full complement of cans, along with a decorative cast-iron rainwater hopper.